My go to craft is crochet and I’ve been futzing around with a hat for a work friend. I swear my hooks have turned against me! I have been faithfully following patterns almost to the point of compulsion. In spite of this my hats have been a bit too small. Ok. Very small. Luckily I have a score of little…
Or: It’s Dr. Seuss’s Birthday. Big Deal. I am probably committing six forms of literary blasphemy but I’ll say it anyway: Dr. Seuss is highly overrated. His books are way too long for read alouds, not as whimsical as they assume they are and quite frankly, and my own Rachee thing, they always scare the crap out of me. Shudder! If I had…
The last few weeks at work have left my evenings feeling as if I have a lack of time and that I am rushing, rushing rushing. By the time I slink home I find that the dinner hour has passed and The Bee and I are scrounging through the fridge looking for something quick to eat before we begin the dance of bedtime. My…
When I was a wee bonny lass and BOYS started to be more than icky creatures I used to think it would be a bit romantic to have two men fighting over me. As I got older and realized that soap opera staged fights for love were not the real life messy events that actually happen I was happy when…
Bah and humbug!Spring has not even sprung and here I am thinking about my library’s summer reading program. Last year the program was busy but not successful. We literally had hundreds of people visit the library but only about 80 actually participate in the reading portion of the program. I will fully own that my ideas were grand but not…